Gray: “I give everything that people need to know through the songs.”

Gray: “For me and my friends – especially Gen Z as a whole – we handle pain in a very specific way of laughing it off. That’s how I’ve always been. In any of my songs – especially the bigger pop songs – I hide as much pain in the lyrics as I can. But I also have so much fun writing fun songs so even if I’m in the mood to write a fun song, it’s probably still gonna be pretty depressing.”

Gray: “I would have loved to have heard a song telling me that it was OK to feel all the crazy emotions that I was feeling.”

Gray: “Ideally, I wish not to be perceived at all. But I am very perceived by a lot of people. I’m very shy and awkward and I get very anxious around people, which is very ironic that this is my life.”

[On the first time he preformed live on stage]

Gray: “I remember walking up on stage and everyone started screaming and clapping and I think in that moment I was like, ‘I’m safe here, all these people are going to be nice to me’.”

Gray: “Putting out the album out of my bedroom felt oddly comfortable and right because I wrote the whole album in my bedroom. I’ve always written songs out of my bedroom just by myself so it felt like the right way.”

Gray: "I would say anyone who knows me intimately would say that I’m kind of dramatic."

Gray: “I guess if anything, I wish I could have told 14-year-old Conan to just shut up and stop putting everything on the internet all the time, but I guess it’s mostly just embarrassing in the same way that when someone comes over to your house you don’t want your mum to show them all your baby photos.”

Gray: “I love touring and I love writing music more than anything on earth so I’ll never stop, but I think one day I’ll learn how to have a good balance. The opposite side of the spectrum will definitely be me buying a big ranch in the middle of Texas and getting a horse and not speaking for half of the year.”

Gray: “Lorde was the first person who was like, ‘I live in the suburbs’. It was the first time I heard someone say something that I actually understood. That’s when I started to understand that I could write music just about my life.”

Gray: “I feel like I give so much of myself in the music that I don’t really show too much of myself and my personal life on the internet.”

Gray: “That’s why I write about them all the time! My ideal state in life would be to be completely invisible and just watch people and see the way they live their lives.”

Gray: “I feel everything super intensely. I feel like the people who listen to my music are the same way, so I don’t feel alone. I’d much rather feel everything super intensely than feel nothing at all.”